Forum: Evaluating Intervention–Continuedin defence of randomised controlled trials, with suggestions about the possible use of meta-analysis
| Autor: | Carol T. Fitz-Gibbon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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Linguistics and Language
media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Language and Linguistics Focus (linguistics) Developmental psychology Speech and Hearing Aphasia Meta-analysis medicine Statistical analysis Language disorder medicine.symptom Psychology Reputation media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 21:117-124 |
| ISSN: | 1460-6984 1368-2822 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/13682828609018548 |
| Popis: | Howard and Pring, in this Forum, appear to attack RCTs, especially in their abstracts. A closer look at their articles and the arguments advanced will, it is argued, leave intact the reputation of RCTs as the most appropriate methodology for testing hypotheses. It is also argued here that it might be desirable to move away from reliance on statistical significance testing and focus instead on estimating Effect Sizes. Meta-analysis is a technique of research synthesis which does this. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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